eidolopoeia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ei-dolopoeia
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noun

A rhetorical technique in which a speech is attributed to a deceased person, a phantom, an image or an idol.

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Example Sentences

"The status of the speaker at the time the speech is imagined as being given is what determines whether it is ethopoeia or eidolopoeia. A speech Heracles might have given while alive is an example of ethopoeia, a speech he might have given after death is an eidolopoeia"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εἰδωλοποιία (eidōlopoiía, “formation of images; putting words into the mouth of a dead person”), from εἰδωλοποιός (eidōlopoiós, “producing phantom-like appearances”), from εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “phantom”) + ποιός (poiós, “-like”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: εἰδωλοποιία

Usage

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Inflected Forms

eidolopeia (alternative) idolopoeia (alternative)